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> Just a prompt away, right?

Humans manually typing out the bytes of source code has been an outdated method, since around a year. It simply doesn't scale as much as those same humans directing agentic teams. So yes, it would be about prompts.

The hard part isn't the technology for the language transition, that one is present today. pgrust shows the way. It's ensuring maintainers are cooperative, i.e. a social problem. Eventually you diverge too much if you do a fork, so it's better done in cooperation with upstream.

Just check how long it took LLVM or GCC to switch off svn for example, and a language switch is much more involved than a VCS switch.

> pgrust shows the way.

You mean the pgrust which was recently caught for cheating benchmarks and incapable of even performing basic queries outside the benchmark set? Would love to see pgrust debunked by Jepsen like this other AI-generated, written in Rust, "formally verified" scam.

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4

I think the pgrust controversy should be resolved now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50209450

I don't consider a cheater downplaying their cheating to resolve the fact that they cheated, no. Every cheater has a defense when caught, and theirs was not convincing. At this point I think the only thing that could redeem their brand would be paying for a Jepsen analysis to verify pgrust is as good as they claim it is; I have zero reason to trust the words from the horse's mouth.